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	Syriac Language - LoveToKnow 1911
		Syriac is the eastern dialect of the Aramaic language which, during the early centuries of the Christian era, prevailed in Mesopotamia and the adjoining regions.
		The main grammatical distinction between Syriac and all the west Aramaic dialects is that in Syriac the 3rd person of the imperfect (singular and plural) of the verb begins with n, but in west Aramaic, as in the other Semitic languages, it begins with y.
		The Syriac alphabet, which derived its letters from forms ultimately akin to those of the Old Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets, has the same twenty-two letters as the Hebrew.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Syriac_Language (1562 words)

	Syriac alphabet Information
		The Syriac alphabet is a writing system used to write the Syriac language from around the 2nd century BC.
		It is one of the Semitic abjads directly descending from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet.
		The Arabic alphabet was based on the Nabatean alphabet, which was based on this form of Syriac handwriting.
	www.bookrags.com /Syriac_alphabet (423 words)

	Monotype: Non Latin Font
		Following the Semitic model, the Syriac alphabet consists of 22 consonants which are equivalent to those of the Hebrew alphabet.
		While the Syriac alphabet is basically consonantal, three of the consonants are also used to convey long vowels in a manner similar to other Semitic scripts.
		Syriac survives today as a minority language and as a liturgical language in some Christian communities.
	www.monotypefonts.com /Library/Non-Latin-Library.asp?show=info&lan=syriac (281 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Syriac alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Syriac is a member of the Afro-Asiatic language family, the Semitic language sub-family, the West Semitic language branch, and the Aramaic language group.
		Western Middle Syriac is the official language of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Maronite Church, the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, the Mar Thoma Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
		Grammar of the dialects of vernacular Syriac: as spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, north-west Persia, and the Plain of Mosul: with notices of the vernacular of the Jews of Azerbaijan and of Zakhu near Mosul.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Syriac-alphabet (2641 words)

	Syriac LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Syriac is a member of the Afro-Asiatic language family, the Semitic language sub-family, the West Semitic language branch, and the Aramaic language group.
		Western Middle Syriac is the official language of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Maronite Church, the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, the Mar Thoma Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
		Grammar of the dialects of vernacular Syriac: as spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, north-west Persia, and the Plain of Mosul: with notices of the vernacular of the Jews of Azerbaijan and of Zakhu near Mosul.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Syriac (2242 words)

	Syriac script
		Syriac scripts are usually written pointed (with vowel diacritics) but can also be written unpointed (without vowel diacritics).
		Syriac, an eastern dialect of Aramaic spoken by Christians in the lands in between the Roman and Parthian empires between the 1st and 12th centuries.
		Syriac is still used used nowadays as ritual and literary language by speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Syria.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/syriac.htm (599 words)

	Phoenician Alphabet
		The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century B.C. This method of writing, later adopted by the Greeks, is the ancestor of the modern Roman alphabet.
		All the European alphabets are descendants of the Phoenician, and all the Asiatic alphabets are descendants of the Aramaic variants of the Phoenician.
		Phoenician alphabet is the ancestor of the Greek alphabet and, hence, of all Western alphabets.
	phoenicia.org /alphabet.html (3190 words)

	Syriac - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Syriac, late dialect of Aramaic, which is a West Semitic language (see Afroasiatic languages).
		Syriac began to yield to Arabic after the coming of Islam in the 7th cent.
		The negation of the non-verbal clause in early Syriac.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Syriac.html (550 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Syriac Hymnody
		Syriac metre is fixed number of syllables of the verses, without distinction of long and short syllables, as in several modern languages.
		Syriac hymnody, especially by the introduction of rhyme, this manner of marking the final stroke of a verse had been hitherto unknown, the rare examples held to have been discovered among older authors being merely voluntary or fortuitous assonances.
		alphabet; thus the first strophe rhymes with a, the second with b, etc. There may also be a different rhyme for the first two measures and for the last.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14407a.htm (1313 words)

	Greatest Inventions-- The Alphabet
		Sanskrit is written in an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the long els is theoretical and not actually used.
		Latin alphabet to write all of its own words, but certain letters (such as K, X and W) are retained for the purpose of writing "foreign" words.
		Santali alphabet, an indigenous true alphabet of India, appears to be based on traditional symbols such as "danger" and "meeting place", as well as pictographs invented by its creator.
	www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/alphabet.htm (2709 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Syriac
		The Syriac script is one of the myriad of Aramaic variants that appeared in the ancient Fertile Crescent around the 1st century CE.
		It was used to write Syriac, a dialect of the Aramaic language spoken by Assyrians, in northern Mesopotamia (the area near where the modern nations of Syria, Turkey and Iraq intersect) and particularly focused around the city of Edessa.
		As Syriac Aramaic has changed little in the last two thousand years, Assyrians are proud that they speak a language with a direct link to the ancient world and to Jesus Christ.
	www.ancientscripts.com /syriac.html (541 words)

	Logos Bible Software for Ancient Languages
		Syriac is an ancient and still living language closely related to Aramaic.
		Transcriptions of the two most important manuscripts classified as Old Syriac Gospels are avaliable: Codex Curetonianus and Codex Sinaiticus (not to be confused with the Greek codex of the same name - though they were discovered at the same monastary).
		Scholars think the original version was based on the Old Syriac text, though a revision of sorts was done in the 12th century (Aland and Aland, 205) on the basis of Greek manuscripts.
	www.logos.com /ancientlanguages (2025 words)

	UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
		Syriac is a form of Aramaic, a language whose many dialects have been in continuous use since the 11th century BC.
		Syriac is the Aramaic dialect of Edessa (present-day Urfa in southeast Turkey), a center of early intellectual activity.
		The oldest of the Syriac scripts, known as Estrangelo (meaning 'rounded'), was fully developed by the 5th century.
	www.um.edu.mt /pressreleases/2006/zammit_martin_publication.html (478 words)

	Arabic alphabet at AllExperts
		The Arabic alphabet is an "impure" abjad—short vowels are not written, though long ones are—so the reader must know the language in order to restore the vowels.
		The first known text in the Arabic alphabet is a late fourth-century inscription from Jabal Ramm (50 km east of Aqaba), but the first dated one is a trilingual inscription at Zebed in Syria from 512.
		In the 20th century, Arabic script was generally replaced by the Latin alphabet in the Balkans,Sub-Saharan Africa, Somalia and Southeast Asia,while in the Soviet Union, after a brief period of Latinization, [1] use of the Cyrillic alphabet was mandated.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/ar/arabic_alphabet.htm (3925 words)

	Note on the Modern Assyrians, & Other Nationalistic Issues
		This used to be characteristic in the Middle Ages: Whatever language you speak, you write it in the alphabet of your religion.
		In Egypt, people from the Coptic Christian community may claim that the Greek alphabet (which is used to write Coptic) was derived directly from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, ignoring the the fact that the Greek alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians, whose own alphabet had been derived much more indirectly, if at all, from Egyptian [cf.
		This is too many to be either an alphabetic or even a syllabic system, but is a bit deficient to be the whole of an ideographic system -- about 1000 characters are known from the similarly fragmentary texts of the Shang Dynasty.
	www.friesian.com /notes/note-n.htm (3368 words)

	Syriac Bible
		In fact, the Syriac Church Fathers produced a number of translations of the Bible and revisions of these translations from the original languages of the Bible.
		The Syriac Old Testament is a translation from the original Hebrew and Aramaic (a different Aramaic dialect from Syriac which is known by the name 'Biblical Aramaic').
		Many old Syriac manuscripts of the Biblical texts survive and can be found in the major museums and libraries of the world and of course in the ancient Syriac libraries of the Middle East as well.
	sor.cua.edu /Bible (777 words)

	JUCKEL: Review - The Old Testament in Syriac Peshitta Version. Part V: Concordance, vol. 1: The Pentateuch
		The decision to subdivide the concordance volumes this way (and not according to segments of the Syriac alphabet) was the only possibility to produce it before the final volume of the OT Peshitta text is published.
		This limitation, as opposed to a single OT concordance subdivided according to the alphabet, is acceptable in light of the fast progress which the current volume experienced, in addition to the advantage of having all letters of the Syriac alphabet represented in each volume.
		For verbs, at least the Syriac stem is given (labeled by a Roman numeral) on the right side of the quotation, combined with the reference letter of the Hebrew correspondence.
	syrcom.cua.edu /Hugoye/Vol1No2/HV1N2Juckel.html (1592 words)

	Learn Syriac, Syriac Windows, Syriac Office, Syriac Software, Syriac Dictionary, Syriac Translation, Syriac Keyboards, ...
		Syriac is the Aramaic dialect of Edessa in Mesopotamia.
		Syriac (or Aramaic) continued to be spoken until the rise of Islam, when it quickly gave way to the dominant influence of Arabic.
		In modern usage the term Syriac generally refers to the liturgical language of the Maronite Catholic Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Syrian Jacobite Church(NOTE: The PC term (used by the World Council of Churches) is the Syrian Orthodox Church.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Syriac.htm (562 words)

	Syriac Christianity
		This indicates that the Manichees using the Syriac alphabet were not only transplanted Mesopotamian people using their own national script, but also people native to Central Asia.
		Some of the passages from Syriac writers that are reflected in the commentary notes the students produced are not known to have existed in Greek or Latin translations.
		Because she is a specialist in the Syriac tradition, she used her presidential address to display to that group some of the wealth of your tradition.
	www.mari.org /JMS/january01/Syriac_Christianity.htm (7730 words)

	Syriac alphabet - Definition, explanation
		The Syriac alphabet is used for writing the Syriac language.
		It is clearly related to other alphabets used to write Semitic languages.
		The West Syriac dialect is usually written in the sertâ ('line') form of the alphabet.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/sy/syriac_alphabet.php (399 words)

	Syriac Summer School/ Syriac Language
		Before Arabic became the dominant language, Syriac was a major language among Christian communities in the Middle East, Central Asia and southern India.
		There are about eighty extant Old Syriac inscriptions, dated to the first three centuries AD (the earliest example of Syriac, rather than Imperial Aramaic, is in an inscription dated to AD 6, and the earliest parchment is a deed of sale dated to AD 243).
		As an official language, Old Syriac was given a relatively coherent form, style and grammar that is lacking in other Old Eastern Aramaic dialects.
	www.syriacsummerschool.com /about_lan/index.htm (459 words)

	New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I: Aachen - Basilians \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		APHRAATES, a frɑ̄´tîz: The “Persian sage.” He is known as the author of twenty-two homilies, arranged according to the letters of the Syriac alphabet, and a treatise, De acino benedicto (Isa.
		The name occurs again in the Syriac martyrology of the year 411.
		The Syriac original was first made accessible by W. Wright (The Homilies of Aphraates, the Persian Sage, i., text, London, 1869; the translation did not appear).
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc01.html?term=Aphraates (441 words)

	Syriac Summer School
		Welcome to the First International Syriac Summer School in the world.
		It is a cursive (joined-up) script, where some, but not all, letters connect within a word.
		The alphabet consists of 22 letters, all of which are consonants.
	www.syriacsummerschool.com (212 words)

	KLEIN: Syriac Writings and Turkic Language according to Central Asian Tombstone Inscriptions
		After a brief note on the use of Syriac as an ecclesiastical language amongst Turkic communities, the paper proceeds to show how those who erected the inscriptions were not familiar with Syriac, and then discusses forms of the letters used in the inscriptions.
		The study is not a philologist one; rather, it aims at presenting some of the pecularities in the said tombstone inscriptions, from the standpoint of research into the history of religion.
		[19] The use of the Syriac script leads to difficulties because not all Turkic phonemes were covered by a corresponding symbol in the Syriac alphabet.
	syrcom.cua.edu /Hugoye/Vol5No2/HV5N2Klein.html (3070 words)

	THE ALPHABET A Key to the History of Mankind
		Syriac scripts: Syrians; their scripts; syriac; Christian Palestinian or Palestinian Syriac; Syriac alphabet; vocalization; punctuation; direction of writing; varieties of Syriac scripts: Estrangela and its descendants; "alphabet follows religion": Nestorians; "Assyrians"; Jacobites; Melkites; development of Nestorian, Jacobite and Melkite scripts; Neo-Syrian character; Garshuni; Greek in Syriac script.
		Early Slavonic alphabets: Cyrillie alphabet; adoption of the Cyrillic alphabet for, and its adaptation to, other language; reform of Russian orthography; Bukvitsa; Glagolitic alphabet; origin of Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets; bibliography.
		Offshoots of the Etruscan alphabet: alphabet of the Piceni; Ventic alphabet; North Etruscan alphabets; Italic scripts: Oscan alphabet; Umbrian alphabet; Siculan alphabet; Latinian alphabets: Faliscan alphabet.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDD824 (1137 words)

	Versions of the New Testament
		Syriac and Arabic have also been mentioned (the version bears significant orthographic similarities to those languages), and revisions based on the latter cannot be ruled out.
		The history of the Syriac versions probably begins with the Diatessaron, the gospel harmony which Tatian compiled (in Greek or Syriac) in the second half of the second century.
		No Syriac manuscripts of the version survive, and we have no more than a small fragment of the Greek (in the Dura parchment 0212, a gospel harmony thought by some to be Diatessaric, though the most recent editors think otherwise).
	www.skypoint.com /~waltzmn/Versions.html (14899 words)

	Syriac links and bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This text uses an ancient Syriac Peshitta version prepared by the Society between 1905 and 1920 collated from 42 ancient Syriac manuscripts.
		The ancient Syriac text is printed in the Western or Jacobite Syriac script.
		This has the whole bible in the ancient Syriac Peshitta version including the Old Testament, the Apocrypha and the New Testament, (the NT has the same text and script as 1.
	www.srr.axbridge.org.uk /syriac_biblio.html (391 words)

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